page_title: The Natural History of Ireland
hierarchical_section_title: The Natural History of Ireland
caption_attribution_description: English: Natural History Ireland Volume 1 Text references Books Figures of Irish birds are not required, as all the species are included, down to the period of publication (to mention British works only) in Selby's Illustrations of British Ornithology [1821-1834] [1]; Gould's [2] Birds of Europe [1832–37]; and the History of British Birds [1797-1804, supplement in 1821] [ by Bewick [3] , and Yarrell [1843][4] , respectively. Coloured figures of many of the species are also given in Sir Wm. Jardine's [5] work on British Birds [Illustrations of Ornithology (1825–43)]&#160;; and in Mr. Macgillivray's [6], the heads, at least, of nearly all the land birds are represented [A Manual of British Ornithology (1840 – 1842)A History of British Birds, indigenous and migratory, in five volumes (1837-1852)]. With so much already done pictorially and descriptively, on the subject of British ornithology, it may be considered superfluous to treat of the birds of Ireland in a separate work, but, in the author's opinion, every country should possess a Natural History specially appertaining to itself. In the publications referred to, the birds of Ireland have been but briefly indicated, — a species generally dis- missed in a single line, and so much appearing only in two works; — those of Sir Win. Jardine and Mr. Yarrell. William Sinclaire [Merchant in Belfast Had a bird collection] prominently Richard Langtry [Estate owner, near Belfast also Milltown] prominently Robert Ball [Dublin Museum, Zoological Gardens in Dublin] prominently John Montgomery, Esq. of Locust Lodge [on the coast of the county Down Loligo subulata var.&#160;? Mr. McCalla Roundstone, Co. Galway prominently Rev. B. J. Clarke Robert Patterson [FRS, Belfast] Mr. R Davis, Clonmel Dr. Harvey, Cork [7] Mr. Templeton [John Templeton [8] Belfast Museum Mr J.V Stewart, John Vandeleur Stewart Rockhill, Letterkenny Mr.John Hancock Newcastle-upon-Tyne [9] Dr. J. D. Marshall R. Chute Blenville Kerry, Dublin Natural History Society Dr. R. Graves, Dublin Captain Fayrer R.N. James R. Garrett Mr R. Davis, jun. T.W. Warren Esq. Dublin Mr. Poole Northern Whig (newspaper) Dr. J. L. Drummond Surgeon on H.M.S. San Juan "anchored close to the New Mole at Gibraltar" Robert G. Bomford, Esq Interesting references de Selys 1844 Autumn visit to Belfast Bird preservers Richard Glennon [Active from 1834 - 1863 , preserver of birds and beasts, dealer in minerals, shells etc 3, Suffolk Street, Civil Parish of St. Andrew, Dublin] Mr. W S Wall bird preserver Mr. Glennon bird preserver, Dublin Mr. Nicholas, bird preserver, Belfast Travels Velino [Italy] Great Park at Windsor rich and wooded district of Norfolk picturesque Matlock {Derbyshire] 29 June 1835 stern grandeur Langdale Pikes [ Lake District] Pontine marshes between Rome and Naples Seven Towers, Constantinople between Valley of Sweet Waters and Constantinople heights of Pera, Constantinople Venice, Verona, Milan, Trieste, Patras Rosheen, Donegal Knowsley, Lancashire Menagerie [10] "with my freind Wm. Ogilby [11] Surrey Zoological Gardens April 1834 majestic promontory of Horn Head, Donegal Egeria, near Rome [12] June, 1835 chalk-cliffs, which rise above the river Derwent, near Cromford, Derbyshire My companion (A. H. Haliday, Esq.,) found quite a harvest of insects on the railing of the bridge Helmsley, Yorkshire, in Oct., 1844 Mr. Hyndman Sir Wm. Jardine this species [House Martin] had just commenced nest-building against the houses in the town of Navarino; in May, was common about Smyrna&#160;; in June, at Patras, where as usual, it was building against the houses in the town. At Trieste, in the same month, the house-martin was numerous, as it likewise was in July, about Venice, Verona, and Milan&#160;; — having in the last city fine nesting-places about the magnificent Arch of Peace [13] sandy bay west of Portrush during a tour of the south of Europe and the Levant, made by the author in the spring and summer of 1841 On the 9th of April, about the Rhone, between Lyons and Avignon, where very few appeared; on the 17th, when a number were seen about Valetta in Malta, in company with many swallows, house-martins, and swifts; on the 30th, when several were observed between Navarino and Modon. When at Macgilligan, in the county of Londonderry, in July, 1833 as we drove slowly from Dunfanaghy to the city of Londonderry At the headlands above the Giant's Causeway, and those near Carrick-a-rede (Antrim) Glenarm Park has come under my notice&#160;: at the range of inland rocks called Salagh Braes, and in the cliffs at the Knockagh mountain, near Carrickfergus In the finely-wooded park at Shane's Castle (Antrim) 9th April 1841 descending the Rhone from Lyons to Avignon 13th April "Leghorn to Pisa" 10th July 1841 "Splugen[14] into Switzerland"
context_page_description: The Natural History of Ireland is a four volume work by William Thompson. The first three volumes were published by Reeve and Benham, London between 1849 and 1851. Volume 4 was published by Henry G. Bohn, London in 1856.
  The Natural History of Ireland is very influential of later developments.
  The parts are:
  Volume 1: Birds, comprising the orders raptores and insessores
  Volume 2: Birds, comprising the orders rasores and grallatores
  Volume 3: Birds, comprising the order natatores
  Volume 4: Mammalia, reptiles and fishes. Also, invertebrata
  edited and published by George Dickie, James Ramsey Garrett and Robert Patterson four years after Thompson's death.
  The Natural History of Ireland was the first attempt to produce an account of the fauna of Ireland. "With so much already done pictorially and descriptively, on the subject of British ornithology, it may be considered superfluous to treat of the birds of Ireland in a separate work, but, in the author's opinion, every country should possess a Natural History specially appertaining to itself.
context_section_description: The Natural History of Ireland is a four volume work by William Thompson. The first three volumes were published by Reeve and Benham, London between 1849 and 1851. Volume 4 was published by Henry G. Bohn, London in 1856. 
  The Natural History of Ireland is very influential of later developments.
  The parts are:
  Volume 1: Birds, comprising the orders raptores and insessores (1849)
  Volume 2: Birds, comprising the orders rasores and grallatores (1850)
  Volume 3: Birds, comprising the order natatores (1851)
  Volume 4: Mammalia, reptiles and fishes. Also, invertebrata (1856)
  edited and published by George Dickie, James Ramsey Garrett and Robert Patterson four years after Thompson's death.
  The  Natural History of Ireland  was the first attempt to produce an account of the fauna of Ireland. "With so much already done pictorially and descriptively, on the subject of British ornithology, it may be considered superfluous to treat of the birds of Ireland in a separate work, but, in the author's opinion, every country should possess a Natural History specially appertaining to itself. In the publications referred to, the birds of Ireland have been but briefly indicated, — a species generally dis- missed in a single line, and so much appearing only in two works; — those of Sir Win. Jardine and Mr. Yarrell".
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